Police briefs: Customer at Salinas restaurant shoots robbers; 1 dies

A customer at a Mexican restaurant in East Salinas shot two robbers about 7 p.m. Thursday, police Sgt. Chris Lane said.

During the armed robbery at Saltillo Tortilleria at North Sanborn and East Boronda roads, "a good Samaritan ... feared for the lives of some people in the building" and shot the robbers, he said.

One robber died at the hospital, and the other was in surgery late Thursday, he said.

SALINAS

Drunken suspect subdued with Taser

A man who appeared intoxicated argued with a television camera operator, struck his equipment and was arrested after police used a stun gun to subdue him, Salinas police said.

The disturbance happened shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday in the 200 block of Main Street.

The man was walking down the street, yelling at people and hitting cars with his fists, police said.

At Lincoln and Central avenues, the man kicked over a construction barrier and walked away from officers after refusing to show his hands, police said.

A Taser was used and the man was taken into custody.

Micah Sullivan, 25, was treated for a possible cheek fracture and cited on charges of public intoxication, resisting arrest and vandalism.

PACIFIC GROVE

Man suspect in assault on father

A man illegally parked in a beach access turnout gave police a false name, but was later determined to be wanted out of Fresno for beating his elderly father with a baseball bat, Pacific Grove police said.

The man was sleeping in his vehicle in the 1200 block of Ocean View Boulevard about 12:15 a.m. Thursday when he was contacted by police. When they asked his name, he provided the name of a dead person, police said.

Police took him into custody to verify his identity via fingerprints and were contacted by the Fresno County Sheriff's Department, who told them Christopher Crowder, 49, was wanted for the beating of his father early Wednesday.

Crowder, who had pre-existing medical conditions, was taken to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, where Fresno detectives took over the case.

MONTEREY

Woman fights off attack in home

A Monterey woman managed to fight off a man who tried to sexually assault her in a home late Wednesday, police said.

The attacker entered a single-family home in the 1100 block of Prescott Avenue through an unlocked door shortly before 9 a.m. and tried to assault a woman, police said.

The woman fended off the attack and the man fled. The woman suffered minor injuries, police said.

The man may have driven away in a gray, 1980s model Datsun 280Z or similar vehicle, police said.